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THE DREAM OF LOVE AND FIRE 







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Bream of 3Loto ano dFtre 



By A DREAMER 




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Ci)e JRen'ncamatton of Cleopatra 



BY A DREAMER 



Sfllustrattons. 



A Daughter of the Pharaohs Frontispiece '- 

<K\)c farbaric Pclobu. 

" When, therefore, thou wouldst throw the red force, 

stand thou upon thy feet " Gerome 

" So shall thy life-power reach through the thought- 
force, AND SUBDUE MAN'S WILL TO THINE " . . . . H. PlCOU 

Slaves dancing before Cleopatra Grolleau 

" TlIY CRUELTIES, O QUEEN, THUS WARN MEN" . . . . A. Cdbatiel " 



ANTONY TO CLEOPATRA. 

I am dying, Egypt, dying. — Shakspeare. 

T AM dying, Egypt, dying ; 

Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast, 
And the dark Plutonian shadows 

Gather on the evening blast. 
Let thy arm, queen, support me ; 

Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear; 
Hearken to the great heart-secrets 
Thou, and thou alone, must hear. 

Though my scarred and veteran legions 

Bear their eagles high no more, 
And my wrecked and shattered galleys 

Strew dark Actium's fatal shore ; 
Though no glittering guards surround me, 

Prompt to do their master's will, 
I must perish like a Roman, — 

Die the great triumvir still. 

Let not Caesar's servile minions 

Mock the lion thus laid low ; 
'Twas no foeman's hand that slew him, — 

'Twas his own that struck the blow. 
Hear, then, pillowed on thy bosom, 

Ere his" star fades quite away, 
Him who, drunk with thy caresses, 

Madly flung a world away. 



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Should the base plebeian rabble 

Bare assail my fame at Home, 
Where the noble spouse, Octavia, 

Weeps within her widowed home, 
Seek her ; say the gods have told me — 

Altars, augurs, circling wings — 
That her blood with mine commingled 

Yet shall mount the throne of kings. 

And for thee, star-eyed Egyptian, 

Glorious sorceress of the Nile ! 
Light the path to Stygian horrors 

With the splendors of thy smile. 
Give the C&sar crowns and arches ; 

Let his brow the laurel twine : 
I can scorn the Senate's triumphs, 

Triumphing in love like thine. 

I am dying, Egypt, dying ; 

Hark, — insulting foeman's cry ! 
They are coming! Quick, — my falchion! 

Let me front them ere I die ! 
Ah, no more amid the battle 

Shall my heart exulting swell! 
Isis and Osiris guard thee ! 

Cleopatra, Rome, farewell ! 



THE DREAM 



OF 



I20VE ANB FIRE. 




1 weary in body and mind ; life's forces 
almost spent, Nature's tide fast ebbing, 
to flow again only in sleep : goddess 
of the night, bring balmy slumber ; for 
with it shall rise again the tide of life. 
Life, why dost thou ebb and flow 1 
What far centre in this universe attracts thee 1 What 
key unlocks life's mysteries ? Shall thought or science 
ever grasp it? This world of men, busy with surface 
thought of common existence, occupied with business, 
pleasures, and cares, finds not time in daily rounds to 
search. 



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Those minds, the few who can afford to think, lifted 
above the strife and wear of life, being rich and indepen- 
dent, — how few do join the search ! 

Why my destiny to be poor ; why this ceaseless struggle 
for bare necessities ; why, O God of love, should this fet- 
tered mind hunger and thirst to rise above its shackles 1 
Oh that some rich loiterer along life's pathway, some 
dreamer daring the ridicule of the prudent, careless of 
beaten paths, would exchange lives with me ! Happy he, 
without thought, in my place ! 

Then had I not lived in vain. Then, with his surround- 
ings, unfettered to rise, — to soar aloft, at ease in thought ; 
to inhale life's pure atmosphere ; to drink in Nature's in- 
spirations ; to delve in research into her hidden mines ; 
perchance to grasp that key which shall unlock to all man- 
kind her generous stores ! But why these longings, these 
regrets! Still can I dream, still in dreams renew this 
search. Oh, glorious privilege to the poor, to dream ! 
Wealth and power await me. The tired body, earth fast 
in sleep, no longer chains this spirit : free, free from earth's 
clay, it rises to commune with Nature. Welcome, sleep ! 
Let me dream again of Egypt. Back ! back to some 
ancient time, to the last of his kind, — some seer, learned 
in Nature's mysteries with pre-Adamic wisdom, hoarding 
from mankind, veiled in figure, life's key ! 

high-priest of Nature, I come to thee. 



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II. 



SLAVE, order prepared the royal litter : the queen would 
journey ; command guards to attend ! 

Marah, I would to the seer. Long have I delayed to 
know my fate. Forebodings of evil attend me ; longer 
will I not to wait. He shall to me unveil the future. 
What reck I that he receives none ? To me he shall open 
both his portal and his wisdom. 

queen, beware how thou dost anger the mighty, — 
whom even our priests of Isis fear and avoid, — living 
alone in yonder rock, beyond man's span of life, with 
eyes of fire ! Rest thee in thy palace this night ; forget 
thy thoughts in new revelry and feast. Thy slaves shall 
dance for thee to new music ; thy lover shall await thee. 
Already have I all prepared, and bidden to the banquet 
of flowers ; as many courses new and strange as hath 
Egypt different flowers. A large sum it cost from out 
the royal treasury. 

Silence, slave ! I go. Let the banquet be given. Ac- 
count for my absence ; none must know my destination. 
Hasten ! Midnight fast approaches ; I would see him alone 
at that hour. 



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O powerful and venerable man, behold thy queen. Long 
have I purposed to visit thee ; much have I heard of thy 
mighty powers ; great thy reward in gold if thou shalt 
read well my destiny. 

O queen, thy rewards and thy gold tempt not ; reserve 
them for the priests of Isis. Thy coming this night I 
expected. Enter, — but alone ! Thou shalt know thy fate. 

O seer, premonitions of evil and death do trouble me, 
like a dark cloud surround me; pleasure, love, and revelry 
drive them away only to return again. Canst thou give 
me power to drive them away forever 1 

O queen, fairest among women in any race or age, thy 
power to move the forces which lie beneath the surface 
of human nature is already most dangerous to mankind. 
Thy life and power with this year shall cease. Not again 
shall thy cycle of life return to earth for near two thou- 
sand years ; and having then greater powers, thou shalt 
still remain unconscious of their existence. Awakened into 
new life in a yet unknown western world, surrounded by 
other influences, circumstances, customs, and civilization, 
thou shalt retain but a dim, far-following dream of present 
exaltation and power. Only in thy dreams then shalt thou 
be able faintly to reach back to this existence. 

venerable seer, what then shall my state be ? 

Not as queen, not as princess. Daughter of the people, 
lacking wealth, do I behold thee : not in poverty, not as 



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now thy slaves, — for master thou shalt never have ; even 
through thy love, never was or will be man thy master. 
Inborn into the new life, follows, as atmosphere surrounding 
the deathless spirit, thy subtle, queenly grace. Without 
thy present beauty, men shall still obey thee, potent through 
thy grace. 

Unto what shall I be like, O seer? Describe as thou 
seest. 

Fair and tall ; hair of gold ; eyes of blue ; stately thy 
carriage, — music's motion attends thee ; voice and laugh- 
ter as chime of distant bells ; fairer than now thy skin ; 
Grecian, as now, thy nose, — greater its depth between the 
eyes (there lie the power and measure of the human soul, 
to outward indication) ; winning thy smile ; not dangerous, 
as now, thy mouth and lips, — rather lacking present cor- 
ners, upward curved, so sensuous in thy sex ; the form 
breathing of grace rather than present physical beauty. 
Still do I behold thee fair to look upon. But lost to thee 
then thy present command over Nature's thought-force. 
No longer flashes from thine eyes the potent life-power 
to move to thy will all men. Increased in power with 
each advancing cycle, the human soul, in ceaseless motion, 
fast or slow, may still remain unconscious of its dormant 
powers. The one ■ soul alone in all the universe who can 
awake them shall pass thee by in that far life, powerless 
through circumstances to aid. 



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How shall I know that soul? and whose shall it be, 
seer? 

The soul of him, queen, for whom thy present life 
soon shall end, — him whom through love for thee, and by 
thy powers to fascinate, thou hast turned aside from mighty 
destiny, soon to die. In that far time his fate shall be 
thus to repay. Justice reigns above all in life's eternal 
progress. He alone shall have power to know thee. Bar- 
baric melody of present revelries shall linger with his soul ; 
music to which thy slaves now dance thou shalt unwittingly 
reproduce for him ; he shall have power to recognize it 
and to know thee. His inmost soul, held in allegiance 
to thine, still, compelled by surrounding circumstances, 
shall pass thee by ; and thine likewise surrounded ; thus 
shalt thou fail to grasp that one key, to unlock thy sleep- 
ing powers. 



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III. 



OSEER, what is that key! 
The ever-living soul-love, qiieen, — the love of 
thy destiny, which dies not with this or any life, but 
follows as a power of soul through all its cycles. /Love 
between souls forms a deathless bond for all eternity ; but 
Justice decrees separation of such souls only for a cycle, 
retarding mutual progress until former injustice is again 
equalized. ) Separation delays soul-rise to higher planes ; 
delay is one of Nature's punishments. In thy next life thou 
shalt be conscious of some unknown, lacking element of 
true happiness, — a craving for that master-key, the soul- 
love. Unsatisfied with loves of that far life, wearying ; thou 
shalt find mind-refuge in music and study. That other 
soul, held apart from thee, shall know like craving to thine. 
Should each live blameless, the succeeding cycle shall, 
purified by their tribute to eternal justice, re-unite, joined 
by soul-power, to rise as twin-stars upon the world of life 
again, — fast or slow, plane by plane, cycle after cycle, 
rising to that universal love-centre called God ; for love is 
power, and God is love. Love lies below, above, around all 

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things. The first great cause, it moves the world, and all 
thereon ; lifts up, in devious ways, to all progress. There- 
fore did love give life to death, and death to all that lives ; 
for what is death but change ? Without change, life stood 
still, — no motion. See, O queen, how beautifully life 
changes, unfolds, and progresses in the butterfly. Take 
heart ! Fear not death : the great sea of universal life rolls 
on. We, upon its waves, first elevated, then depressed, — 
still its currents flow, because of love's almighty power. 

What circumstances, O seer, shall separate ? 

Again, O queen, seeming love given by destiny to others, 
— also serving the decrees of Justice. Thus accounts thy 
formerly thought love for that other great Roman, and his 
for thee. Into human life much misery thus comes, as 
whips of justice, to equalize former transgressions against 
love's eternal laws ; by suffering to burn away the dross, 
and purify the spirit for upward flight. 

AVhen first I saw this man I love, my heart did go out 
to him. O seer, is there love at sight ? 

Know, O queen, when destiny forbids not, souls decreed 
to mate attract each other. The secret key of life itself — 
its positive and negative properties — lies in this thought. 



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IV. 



THE passive in Nature is but the figure of death in life. 
Before life existed in the universe, in all-pervading, 
passive stillness, was atom unto atom joined, in one un- 
moving, silent volume. The pre-existing spirit of love 
overcame this passive universal death by love's positive 
force, — when, lo ! atom, attracted unto atom, joined, pro- 
ducing motion. Then was first born motion, with all its 
natural different forms ; thus motion underlies all life. Not 
yet did life appear; life came only with the birth of fire. 
Behold how atom against atom rolling, with increasing 
motion, burst into a sea of fire and life ; for life and fire 
are one. Whirling still, the universal globe threw off in 
space all its systems ; its central mass, love's seat, retain- 
ing still almighty attraction. All systems around this cen- 
tre rolling in vast cycles, each, with motion accelerated, 
from its great mass again threw off its planets, moons, 
and satellites, leaving but a central sun remaining ; around 
which, in various orbits rolling, different from the system's 
plane of motion, each ball of fire and life eternally moves, 
whirling on its centre, — each, in distance from its attracting 



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centre, being at the central passive point in the universe, 
from which, in atoms spread, love's almighty power had 
drawn it, now a ball of fire with motion in three planes; — 
all systems, suns, and stars moving in divine harmony, to 
love's majestic music, about their universal Master. Be- 
hold, O queen, how once again acts that silent central power 
of love, retaining in each sun of every system the life- 
centres, from which radiates to all its system, flowing to 
and fro, the universal life-force, as waves and tides of life's 
great sea. It reaches even thee, O queen. Hast thou not 
at times felt its influence on thy life, lifting thee upon its 
crest 1 Now thou art in its trough. 

Slowly now this centre of the system's life, drawing 
from its members their primal fiery life-tension, separating 
more and more fire from life, began to cool them. In 
cooling, behold how the planet's atmosphere and waters 
form from its own substance. Darkness reigns upon its 
cooling surface : thick clouds of moisture shut out the 
sun's life-bearer, light ; water forms, drains and thins the 
deep clouds, is cast upon its surface to form the planet's 
waters ; with great convulsive movement land, hardened, 
now rises from former level ; water fills great cavities ; light, 
long absent, breaks through clouds ; darkness vanishes. 
Tims prepared for present life-forms, water, first attaining 
Nature's life-range, between heat and cold, aided by love's 
life-bearer from our sun, brought forth fish-life until it 



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encroached upon the land ; Nature, progressing in life-links 
of her great chain, spread with light's green, cool motion a 
mantle of trees and flowers ; another link upward, — in air, 
now ready, feathered life appears ; another brings on earth's 
animals ; last of all, man, rising from the animal plane, 
highest of created forms of life, received from life's Master 
that glorious endowment, a soul, accompanied by another 
sense, unknown to animal plane. But still goes on eternal 
progress ; with it these souls, with differing rates of motion, 
plane after plane, rising higher in soul-power up life's scale, 
in longer or shorter time, until at last, returning again in 
life's great cycle of cycles, they reach love's almighty seat, 
to be at one with God. 



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V. 



BEHOLD, O queen, that miniature world, called moon, 
having passed through life's stages before its larger 
centre of attraction, losing first its primal fires, becomes cold 
in death, — Nature's passive state, — its soul-life passing, in 
their cycles, on to other planet-homes where life attracts it. 

Still it swings attendant, a revolving mirror, to reflect 
life's forces, in ebb and flow, through light rays from the 
sun ; becoming goddess of Nature's night, sending down 
upon all moving life Nature's restorer during sleep, when 
fires of animal life burn not with day's fierce intensity. The 
life-forces of the tired body are thus renewed for daily 
consumption. The body also fed with Nature's fuel from 
earth's primal life-substance, — now food and drink, con- 
verted by marvellous machinery to its uses ; through blood 
rivers, carried to nerve-cell and tissue of animal life, there 
to feed upon Nature's altars her vital fire. Thus goes on 
this process in the human race, until life's primal tone, by 
sexual sin against love's law becoming lowered, tends toward 
the passive state of death. Daily exhaustion and nightly 
renewal serve, with Nature's fuel, no longer to maintain life's 



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normal tone up to tlie red motion. The nice balance be- 
tween exhaustion and supply is lost, until finally, that life 
may ever change, take on new forms, and onward progress, 
it has natural rights to death by love's eternal law. There- 
fore do love's messengers of death, from Nature's air and fuel, 
'tenter, because the body's lowered tone attracts and summons 
them, below the normal level, to give it death and change, 
and let its soul arise. That sexual poison of human blood 
tends to shorten life, to depress its tone. The human race 
spans life far short of its primal right. It also tends to fetter 
in dormant passive state the soul-sense of mankind. Thus 
shall both life and soul penalty pay to love's broken law, until 
some master-substance of the future from Nature's laboratory 
be absorbed by the race, to drive from human blood and 
human life this poison, — gradually to remove the tendency 
to continue sin this poison brings, thus to regain life's bal- 
ance lost, again finally to rise in tone to life's primal motion, 
— thus to lengthen human life and free the soul-sense to 
human nature's proper powers. 

queen, the fires of life throw off, about each body 
or living thing, an atmosphere charged with positive and 
negative forces, natural to all life, inherited from the primal 
atoms. 

Even the sensitive plant feels by it, and closes negatively 
its leaves by contact with that by man surrounded ; and 
when, O queen, thy heart at first sight of him thou lovest 



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did go out, Ills atmosphere with thine in contact caused not 
the leaves of thy heart to close, as in the plant, but attracted 
positively, — drew it to his, and his went out to thee. Thus 
Nature brings about the birth of mutual human love. Its 
pi-ogress and further growth thou knowest ; for by conscious 
use of hidden life, and control by its powers over those of 
man, thou canst sway to thy will, and create desire to love 
and be at one with thee. 



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VI. 



TELL me, seer, wherein lies my power to sway 
man's will? 

Study thyself, O queen ! Rich with life-force, thine atmos- 
phere steals subtly upon man. Thy voice, tuned in Nature's 
harmony, in man a chord responsive strikes. The soul can 
be rendered passive by music ; thy voice, thy smile, is as 
music to soothe to passive state the negative or opposing 
will. The will in man is the soul's strong servant, oft its 
master. Thy face and form appeal to natural love of beauty. 
Thy grace of motion, in thy presence, pleases. Man, becom- 
ing passive, loses Nature's safeguard; his life loses in its 
motion. Thine, positive, overtakes and dominates it. By 
throwing thy attractive thought-force upon him, thou dost 
sway man to thy will. 

How, seer, is thrown the thought-force ? 

In the right-handed, O queen, the right forefinger throws 
the attractive force ; therefore dost thou use it to emphasize 
thy thought or words. With the left-handed it throws the 
negative force. Thou dost throw thought-force from eyes, 
mouth, and right-hand to attract. This attractive force is 



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red in color, positive and warm to the soul-sense. It is life 
in brighter glow, at higher motion than normal human life ; 
its loss from the body's forces is exhausting. This exhaus- 
tion led the race to search for stimulants, and underlies the 
body's craving. Rest of body and mind, the influx of the 
life-tide, with natural fuel, again replaces its spent power. 
But, queen, Nature has a simple stimulant, unknown to 
man, — widely diffused in all the planet's substances and 
waters, — known to me, which, used as a life-fuel, gradually 
recruits and raises life-tone, expelling poison and clogging 
waste, freeing soul-powers dormant, and prolonging life to 
man's normal span ; therefore do I now exist. Thou dost 
think, now, why I do not make it known to man. Know 
then, O queen, that human nature could not yet believe. I 
should be laughed to scorn. Free as water, men would not 
use it. The race soul-level now requires an instant miracle 
to cause belief to come to ignorance, — wants nothing simple. 
But Nature's miracles are not instant, but leisurely and simple 
when known. Pandering to human desire for instant relief, 
the future shall bring forth a privileged class of men, who 
shall have conceded license to experiment upon human life ; 
and race-ignorance shall make them popularly unaccountable 
to man's laws for those whom they drag down to death. 
Nature's negative force is blue in color, cold and repellent 
to the soul-sense. When thou wouldst best throw the red 
force of thought, stand thou upon thy feet, lest its strength, 



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in contact with obstacles or unnatural conductors, be dimin- 
ished. Its force travels instant, yet slowly, between souls, 
as compared with natural inspiration borne to souls from 
love's almighty will on life-waves ; and slowly also, compared 
to thought by other natural forms of motion carried. Thy 
atmospheres in contact, stand thou with right-hand nearest ; 
thy left-hand throws the blue away from him. To create 
impression, desire, or thought thou wiliest, look now upon 
the eyes. Throw from thy mouth the spoken thought, from 
thine eyes the life-fire, — all this is but thought in motion ; 
for thought is but a mode of life-motion. All modes of 
motion underlie life itself. So shall thy life-power reach 
through the thought-force, and subdue man's will to thine. 



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VII. 



W r HY, seer, has thought such colors 1 
The animal sense of sight, unaided, discovers not 
color in life-force, queen ; but color has much effect on 
animal life, and man's color-surroundings much effect on 
life and thought. Fire has also much effect on animal sight, 
because of being the highest primal form of life, — of life- 
fire visible to human eyes : behold that from glow-worm 
and firefly. The bodily tissue and substance of all animal 
life hide its fiery, light-giving part in great quantity ; but 
some of human kind exhale an atmosphere of life and light 
(color), as Nature's rainbow in color-arrangement, — blue 
from left, red from right, yellow above the head, where lies 
the seat of human love for all mankind. For Nature has 
but one eternal arrangement of color, — every color to ani- 
mal eye a different rate of life's motion, arrested by different 
planes of life-substance, oft close-lying from Nature's life 
and color-bearer, light. Therefore death is black, from 
absence of motion in life. The passive state in man is the 
dark gray soul-level color of present race-elevation ; thy 
next life-cycle shall find it raised to light gray : with gradual 



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soul-elevation comes gradual rise in life and soul color. 
The divine eternal love that rules this universe is white, — 
the highest motion in life ; and human love of highest grade, 
purged of its reddish, animal tone, is pale yellow. Life's 
colors at either side the scale run ■ to gray and black ; hut 
those soids possessing high development in soul-sense, great 
soul-powers, high elevation in love's soul-scale, outstrip- 
ping others in the soul-race to higher planes, show vary- 
ing color predominant. Erelong upon this earth must 
come a soul, surrounded by a halo of the pale yellow 
light, loving all of human kind with pure, undying love ; 
whose power can conquer will and th/mght, to raise man's 
fallen race in time to high estate. As Melchizedek in 
former cycle, he had passed the foremost soul in love's 
great cycle-race. Soon upon the horizon of human life, 
O queen, shall rise this brilliant soul, and I upon its rise 
attend. 

How shall be known to thee the time, O seer 1 
As radiant star the fires of love and life follow this pure 
spirit from afar, visible to eyes of men. Thus shall I behold 
and know the time ; its light shall lead me to its place 
of advent into human life before my eyes are closed in 
death. 

Shall this pale yellow soul possess beauty or power ex- 
ceeding other men ;' and what color dominates my soul, 
O seer? 



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Thine, queen, a dark but brilliant orange is, — fas- 
cinating- to man, ever by it tempted to thoughts and passions 
delaying soul-rise. Only the pure in soul can quickly rise 
to higher planes of love. Thus shalt thou interpret that 
veiled figure of truth, — -woman tempting man to sin with 
a forbidden fruit. At birth, queen, the child from paren- 
tal mould by law inherits outward appearance natural to 
its ancestors, near or far, — man from woman, woman from 
man. Thus thy Grecian face, in Egypt, comes from Ptolemy, 
of Alexander's time. The pale yellow soul to come, pure 
in thought, whose high life-motion in advance fashioneth 
parental mould, from which to burst upon the eyes of 
man, must, by love's color-law, possess not only outward 
manly beauty, but inward power and grace transcending 
other men. The daily thought of human kind writes upon 
the face its outward characters, with meaning clear to 
practised eyes versed in reading Nature's mighty book. 
Powerless to free himself from thought which writes upon 
his face the secret crime, a murderer, branded, walks the 
world ; warned by Nature's subtle soul-sense, men beware 
of him by atmospheric contact with his life and thought. 
Thy cruelties, O queen, thus warn men of thee, and render 
negative, until thy dangerous power soothes to passive state 
and fascinates, — as glittering eye of serpent charming bird. 
By life's soul and color law he, most advanced of human 
souls, must possess the human frame in delicate symmetry ; 



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and yet with animal and soul strength to receive swift 
life-power from its almighty source, thus to keep pace with 
most powerful life-expenditure. For too swift influx to the 
normal human frame of life-motion, brought by light from 
life's central sun, raises beyond the human life-range the 
body's heat ; and man, sunstruek, dies. Attaining the 
starting-point again in life's circle, from cold of death around 
through differing; grades of heat to cold of death again. He 
without brute strength in high degree, still of manly height 
and physical perfection. — It also must endow him light in 
skin, tinged with health's glow on cheek and lip. Hair 
and beard of golden hue rarely found in man, save in high 
soul-union with life. Brow clear, wide, and high. Eyes 
most wonderful in liquid depth ; calm, dark, and luminous ; 
their penetrating power lays bare the secret motives and 
action-springs under human nature's surface, — when throw- 
ing life's thought-force, burning as living fires. Nose 
straight, and of unusual height from top of bridge to inward 
point of eye. Lips from whose lines Love shaped his bow. 
Mouth delicate yet strong, wide yet pure, with corners 
downward drawn. Teeth as pearls, seldom showing- in a 
smile; more used to tears and sorrow, he; in thoughts on 
human life, — so great his burden of love and pity for man's 
fallen race. Chin firm, with light beard covering. Hand 
small, with fingers pointed, almost ; soft of touch. Nerves 
and sinews taut as drawn bowstrings. Carriage majestic, 



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calm of mien, presence and atmosphere overpowering. Men 
shall worship him as God divine, — not because of manly 
beauty ; his inborn soul-power and high life-motion make 
him king of men ; his love of human kind deserves their 
homage ; his great soul embraces all, and by its attractive 
forces shall draw unto him, by power of love, through the 
soul-sense, mankind after him forever. 



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VIII. 

WHY dost thou liken the soul-power to a sense, seer 1 
Thou canst feel the eyes of man upon thee, queen, 
though the five animal senses tell thee not of his presence. 
His atmosphere, extended by thought-force thrown from his 
eyes, touches thine : thought-force passes. Thy soul-sense 
receives it, makes it known to thee, even as physical touch 
thou knowest through a sense. Thought and inspiration 
reach man through soul-sense. Thought pertains only to 
mankind; but inspiration is only swift thought, being life in 
motion. All thought is indestructible, and leaves its record, 
which . future ages yet may read. Inspiration comes from 
higher source than earth-life ; love is Nature's great inspirer. 
Thy next cycle should bring with it to man much inspired 
thought, invention, or discovery ; but man invents, discovers \ 
nothing. Upon its plane of thought he stumbles on it, and 
gives himself great credit. With each advancing- cycle in 
soul-elevation man must attain new powers, found upon their 
proper planes; only by advanced, fast-moving human thought, 
sent beyond the race soul-level, does man discover first or 
come upon new powers. Knowest thou, when physical senses 

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are locked in sleep, the soul-sense never sleeps ? Look thou 
upon eyes in slumber closed : throw thought, the soul-sense 
awakes the sleeper with faculties alert, when first his eyes 
meet thine ; hut by any other sense awakened, the sleeper is 
at first confused. Through soul-sense only is thought-force 
received and thrown. It can within the body be sent along 
the nerve-lines to the finger-tip, thence through the body's 
atmosphere extending it to great distance. As far as sight 
can measure, thy friend will presently turn and look at thee, 
by means of strong thought from pointed finger thrown. 
Whether friend or stranger, if passive or in accord, thou shall 
see him turn. The seats of life and of soul are separate in the 
body, but both connected are by soul-sense. Unto life's seat 
the animal senses bring, from the physical or body's plane, 
all knowledge in life-motion. The eye sends to it all that 
light-waves bring, the ear that sound-waves bring, the nostrils 
that odor-waves in air bring, the tongue and palate all that 
Nature's food and liquid supply in motion brings, as fuel to 
life. The body's surface in touch brings life-motion in pain 
or pleasure. The life and soul seats jointly operate through 
soul-sense, — a connecting plane of force in life-motion, which 
extends to all the body's atoms by which all commands to 
motion are sent by either life or soul. The will in man, 
servant of both soul and body, may act for either power, 
consciously or unconsciously to the life-seat; hence man's 
use for reason. The will of all animal life can be reached by 



€ljc SDream of 3louc ano fire. 35 

influences from outside the body only through the life-force 
in animals, but in man alone through both life and soul sense. 
Man's power to conquer animal life consists of his superior life- 
motion, given by the soul-power, added to his natural animal 
life-motion. Thus accelerated, it overtakes and overpowers 
the lion, king of beasts. Some men, with natural soul-devel- 
opment of life-motion, to use in conquering animal life, shall 
by the eye subject the animal will, and render harmless for 
the time, through animal fear of superior unknown power, 
by overcoming the negative or passive state with high-life 
motion positive. The soul-sense an office has unknown to 
any sense in animal life. Men call it conscience, — the sense 
of right and wrong. From it, into this world, gradually 
came all human law. By this office, by divine love im- 
planted, do we know that justice reigns with the Almighty 
power in all Nature. By thus reasoning do we know that 
man's short span between human birth and death limits not 
his existence, but is a period or cycle, — merely one sweep 
in Nature's life-circle of the soul's orbit. For this short span, 
if judged by its actual justice alone meted out in human 
life, would destroy natural justice, and with it love. Without 
love there is no God. Time, as known to human life, exists 
not for the soul in one short span ; it may well pay debts 
to eternal justice in other spans contracted. All suffering and 
injustice in one span seen, undeserved by those who suffer 
(as we think), is thus accounted. 



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IX. 



IN human brute, not yet in soul-rise far above the animal 
plane, with soul-sense faint, soul and thought power 
dormant, brute instincts rule ; strong passions cloud the rea- 
son ; force or life-motion is acknowledged king ; life-preser- 
vation and life-propagation most interest him ; almost devoid 
of conscience, ignorant of soul-laws, he suffers to equalize 
justice, along with him of higher soul. For ignorance of 
love's just laws justifies none, here or hereafter. Therefore 
for such, pity, in human nature's higher forms, companion 
is with love. 

The human will is an armed servant, having two weapons, 
— using Nature's negative force for defense, her positive for 
attack. The vital defenceless entrance through which only 
may be subdued the will in human body is its passive 
state. Being thus fallible, man's life subject is to change; 
and change means death. Otherwise might human life, at 
primal, normal tone, run on forever. The almighty will 
must therefore have no passive state ; it therefore cannot 
change or die. 'T is through this passive state that soul- 
power is rendered dormant by evil acts and influences. The 



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medium for transmission without the body's boundaries of 
the thought-force operated by the human will is motion ; 
which underlies all life, all light, air, color, chemical or 
life heat and activity. Waves of sound, the water's com- 
position, the lightning's flash, the lodestone's power, — all, 
all are forms of motion, by or through which the thought- 
force may pass. 

The life-fire of thought-force dries man's eye as it strikes ; 
instinctively the eyelids again cover it with Nature's lubri- 
cant ; not until this is done does the eye turn to discover 
the source of this force. Strong gaze, with thought, tires 
the weaker eye ; it turns away from the gazer, looking 
down to protect itself behind the sheltering lid ; all blind- 
ness not from accident is caused by lowered life-tone. The 
thought-force directed at man's atmosphere when his back 
is turned will turn him around to know its source, if he 
is in the passive state, with mind not intently occupied and 
focused on some thought, or attention distracted. Being 
at such times occupied is either in positive or negative 
state ; therefore this force cannot reach him well. 

When thought of absent one strikes thine atmosphere 
without thy previous will, they think of thee and uncon- 
sciously throw thought from a distance ; or oft they appear 
presently before thee. Distance cannot separate thee from 
thy lover who is at 'one with thee ; for thine image shall be 
with him, and his with thee. If both, with closed eyes, 



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throw strong thought to the other at the same time with 
high soul-power, each may become aware of the other's 
intense emotions. Thus may mother with absent son com- 
mune, or father with daughter, or close friend with friend 
of opposite sex ; but for lrke sexes thus to commune requires 
intense soul-power, and causes great life-exhaustion ; for 
brother and sister, without great love, such communion is 
impossible. 



Ztyz Dream of Jlotoc aitfc fire. 39 



X. 



THE sexual love-kiss gives pleasure, O queen, because 
lives exchange their fire. All pain or pleasure is but 
blue or red with the motion of life. The very breath of 
life is air and life -motion giving exhilaration to the blood. 
The pulse, the blood's motion in animal life, rises or falls 
with pain or pleasure by any sense brought. Sexual sin 
against love's law in animal life is sin only against soul- 
pleasure. Soul-love being passive or negative, much life- 
exhaustion follows, poisonous to life and blood. The refuse 
of life's fires gradually clogs the blood ; sufficient fuel- 
supply does not reach life's altars in nerve-cell and tissue ; 
the blood loses the normal red motion of life ; and when 
finally its lowered tone summons natural agents of change, 
and man is dragged down to life's extremity, behold ! most 
souls in the critical moments between the ebbing and flow- 
ing of life's sea-tides do escape the body after midnight, to 
return no more. Men call this death. All disease is but 
a variation of life-heat, — itself a form of motion. Nature's 
antidote for heat is moisture ; for water from Nature's heat 
first came. Separated, its different parts come back to fire 



40 €\)t SDreani of Sotoe ano fire. 

again. Water's motion is from positive fire to negative 
ice ; as water, its state of motion corresponds to animal 
life-motion ; therefore it becomes Nature's drink. The rate 
of motion between fire and ice fixes the temperature and 
currents of the air and water, the climates of the world ; 
gauges the rain-fall, the Nile's inundations, the food — fuel 
supply of animal life. Nature's life-motion, in a circle 
always whirling, comes back to fire, — the starting-point 
of life. When man experiences great thirst, O queen, the 
right wrist, rubbed by his left hand gives relief; the cool 
negative life-influence thus tones down undue positive heat, 
— for heat brings thirst when above the normal life-tem- 
perature. Undue heat is depressing to the action of the 
soul-sense and human will in throwing or receiving thought- 
power. Therefore the climate of man's birth will be ever 
most favorable to him in all affairs of life ; for all men 
more or less unconsciously possess and use in its dormant 
state in their race the soul-sense, to attain success in every 
department of busy life. Religions to come shall use its 
forces unconsciously to proselyte with, calling it God's 
power ; and so it is, — for all power has its first great source 
in love, or God. Every natural orator of mankind is elo- 
quent only through this power of life and soul. Its use 
underlies all successful trade by creating desire to possess, 
where man's necessities compel him not. With thy next 
life-cycle on earth, queen, love's uplifting soul-force shall 



€f)c Dream of llo'oc ano jfirc. 41 

have raised the human race partially from its present igno- 
rance. Therefore shall then commence a rapid awakening 
of soul-powers dormant in the race, as compared to its 
present increase. Tims gradually it gathers strength by the 
influence of its advanced souls ; and when, after thy next 
life, shall again the pale yellow one appear, — then almost 
white, so high his state of soul, — then indeed shall the 
human race be lifted up with greater motion. For human 
reason then shall scorn to use the negative forces of life in 
ridicule or prejudice ; gradually shall man cease to scorn 
the simple, little things of life ; thought, inspiration, study, 
religion, music, and man's love of Nature's beauties shall 
be the uplifting instruments of eternal love ; and man shall 
through love be his brother's keeper in the soul's ascend- 
ing plane, and not strive to push his brother down ; then 
shall, through love, the fallen woman be raised up b} r her 
virtuous sister to purity. The uses of fasting to elevate, 
temporarily, the soul above the body's weight, shall then 
be better known. Religion shall then learn to use the 
positive living- prayer, by progress from the negative 
through the passive way of praying, finally to reach it ; 
and by it more and more to draw near to the soul's 
source through love. 

seer, the morning's first faint lio-ht now breaks. I must 
away ; but tell me' first, as I am soon to die, some means 
to expire easily and painlessly. 



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Here is Nature's most subtle and instant death, queen ! 
Thus do I place in thy hands a power of death undetectable, 
and to men unknown. Conceal its small bulk so secretly 
about thee that search shall not deprive thee of it in thy 
last extremity ; for I in the near future behold that time 
for thee. And now farewell ! I shall never again behold 
thee living - . 

O seer, I thank thee from my soul, and ask of thee to 
intercede for me, that the love of the pale yellow one may 
lift me -up in my next life. For thoughts of what thou hast 
this night said shall sustain my soul in death. 

queen, thy soul shall be lifted up. Again farewell ! 

Once more am I awake ; and still I live. What .more 
strange than this dream ? Was it but a dream 1 So vivid 
its impression I feel exhausted ; my nerves are shaking. 
Surely this was more than common dream. But I must away 
to work. Life's necessities must be provided for from more 
substantial stuff than dreams are made of. 



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